Ad/Banner Management/Rotation for Ruby on Rails?

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David N. Welton picture David N. Welton · Jul 10, 2009 · Viewed 8.4k times · Source

I have a niche site that I'd like to sell banners for directly, rather than going through adsense. I need a system to manage the whole process: displaying ads and an administrative interface to manage them. It doesn't have to be anything terribly fancy, although open source is greatly preferred so that I can grow the system as needs be. Since the site itself is in Rails, I would prefer something for that environment. Googling turns up bunches of them in PHP, but the results are a bit polluted and I didn't have any luck finding one that was done in/for Rails.

If I don't find one, I suppose I'll see what I can do to hack together something and release it myself under an open license.

Another possibility is this: http://www.google.com/admanager - anyone have anything to say about it? Is it right for someone just selling a few ads for a not-so-big site?

Thanks, Dave

Answer

Simone Carletti picture Simone Carletti · Jul 10, 2009

The company I work for has several Rails projects. We searched for a Rails banner management system but we didn't find any commercial/open source project available.

We integrated Google AdManager and I have to say it's definitely a good choice. It lacks some advanced features available in Openx, but we didn't miss them for our projects.

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